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· A
cardiologist in Westlake, Ohio, was indicted for allegedly performing and
referring unnecessary medical procedures on patients as part of a scheme to
overbill Medicaid and private health-insurance companies by $7.2 million. – Federal
Bureau of Investigation

19. August 21, Federal Bureau of
Investigation – (Ohio) Westlake cardiologist
indicted for overbilling Medicare and others of $7.2 million for unnecessary
procedures. A cardiologist in Westlake was indicted for allegedly
performing unnecessary medical procedures and referring patients for bypass
surgeries they did not need as part of a scheme to overbill Medicaid and
private health-insurance companies by $7.2, defrauding Medicade and private
insurers of around $1.5 million between February 16 and June 28. The 16-count
indictment includes 1 count of health care fraud, 14 counts of making false
statements, and 1 count of engaging in monetary transactions in property
derived from criminal activity. Source: http://www.fbi.gov/cleveland/press-releases/2014/westlake-cardiologist-indicted-for-overbilling-medicare-and-others-of-7.2-million-for-unnecessary-procedures

· University of
Alaska campuses statewide experienced a network outage for several hours August
20 after hackers targeted the university’s servers with a distributed denial of
service attack. – Fairbanks Daily News Miner

· Police are
searching for suspects who broke into Central Elementary School in Effingham
County, Georgia, and stole equipment and tens of thousands of dollars in copper
wiring, leaving the building without power. – WTOC 11 Savannah

· Clark County
fire officials reported that an August 17 fire that caused an estimated $1.5
million in damage at Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Hazel Dell, Washington,
was human-caused, while it remains unclear if the fire was intentionally set. –
Clark County Columbian

For another story, see item 27 below
in the Information Technology Sector

Information Technology Sector

26. August 22, Softpedia – (International) Credentials can be stolen in UI state
inference attack. Researchers presenting at the USENIX Security Symposium
published a paper outlining a new form of attack called a user interface (UI)
inference attack that can steal Android users’ credentials by conducting a
side-channel attack relying on a common shared-memory mechanism used by window
managers. The attack uses a malicious app that does not require permissions and
the researchers believe that the same vulnerability likely exists in other
operating systems such as iOS, Windows, and OSX. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Credentials-Can-Be-Stolen-In-UI-State-Inference-Attack-456028.shtml

27. August 22, Securityweek – (International) Vulnerability found in Google Wallet,
Alipay payment SDKs. Researchers with Trend Micro identified and reported a
security vulnerability in the in-app payment SDKs for Google Wallet and Alibaba
Alipay in Android that can be exploited by attackers using intent-filters to
display phishing messages and obtain user credentials. Alibaba and Google both
released updates to their apps after being informed by the researchers May 27.
Source: http://www.securityweek.com/vulnerability-found-google-wallet-alipay-payment-sdks

28. August 22, Softpedia – (International) Vulnerability in Akeeba Backup for
Joomla went undetected for years. Sucuri researchers found a vulnerability
in the Akeeba Backup extension for Joomla that has existed for years and could
allow a skilled attacker to access backup files created with Akeeba and
download them. The researchers stated that the security risk presented by the
vulnerability was low due to the difficulty in exploiting it, and the newest
version of Akeeba is no longer vulnerable. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Vulnerability-in-Akeeba-Backup-for-Joomla-Went-Undetected-for-Years-455961.shtml

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About Me

U.S. Army Retired Chief Warrant Officer with more than 40 years in information technology and 35 years in information security. Became a Certified Information Systems Security Professional in 1995 and have taught computer security in Asia, Canada and the United States. Wrote a computer security column for 5 years in the 1980s titled "for the Sake Of Security", penname R. E. (Bob) Johnston, which was published in Computer Decisions.
Motto: "When entrusted to process, you are obligated to safeguard"